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  • 11 - Involving patients and consumers in health care and decision-making processes: nothing about us without us

    • By Nete Villebro, Department of Anaesthesiology, H:S Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, Janet Wale, Cochrane Consumer Network, Perth, Australia
  • Edited by Ann Møller, KAS Herlev, Copenhagen, Tom Pedersen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
  • Book:
    Evidence-based Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
    Published online:
    05 September 2009
    Print publication:
    09 October 2006, pp 103-116

  • Summary

    This chapter highlights the concept of the informed patient who takes an active role in shared decision-making with their health care providers, in the context of anaesthesia. A well informed patient is able to discuss openly with their physician the benefits and possible harms of treatment together with any alternatives. Information and effective communication are crucial to informed patient consent and shared decision-making that incorporates a sense of feeling respected and able to make a meaningful contribution to the decision-making process. Evidence-based health care is dependent on an effective transfer of information and its incorporation into practice. In anaesthesia, clinical governance and financial management are vital factors in the availability and practice of effective health care. Cochrane systematic reviews play an important part in directing research and a considered view of the outcomes that are measured is important.